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Sorry the title was to long the full title is: [h=1]Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims[/h]
A small group of inter-connected foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers is behind the 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S., according to a major investigative report released here Friday by the Center for American Progress (CAP).

The 130-page report, ‘Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America’, identifies seven foundations that have quietly provided a total of more than 42 million dollars to key individuals and organisations that have spearheaded the nation-wide effort between 2001 and 2009.


They include funders that have long been associated with the extreme right in the U.S., as well as several Jewish family foundations that have supported right-wing and settler groups in Israel.

"Together, this core group of deeply intertwined individuals and organisations manufacture and exaggerate threats of ‘creeping Sharia’, Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran," according to the report whose main author, Wajahat Ali, described the group as "the central nervous system of the Islamophobia network."

ther key disseminators include media figures, especially prominent hosts on the Fox News Channel and columnists in the ‘Washington Times’ the ‘National Review’; as well as grassroots groups, such as ACT! For America, local "Tea Party" movements, and the American Family Association, which are behind current efforts by Republican-dominated state legislatures to ban Sharia in their jurisdictions.

Indeed, Spencer’s blog, ‘Jihad Watch’, a programme of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, another group identified by the report as part of the Islamophobic network, was cited 162 times, while Pipes and the MEF receive 16 mentions, and Gaffney’s CSP another eight.
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You can read more at: Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims | World | AlterNet What are my thoughts? Honestly i am not surprised. When you get a portion of your population so hyped up with fear they become subordinate to anything. So can we put this whole "jihad Sharia Law" thing to rest yet? I doubt it, but this defiantly proves that there was some "invisible hand" to making this such a "issue"...
 
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Seems to me that this belongs in the conspiracy section.
 
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1Perry said:
Seems to me that this belongs in the conspiracy section.
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How is this a conspiracy?
How is the whole premise this a conspiracy?
"The 130-page report, ‘Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America’, identifies seven foundations that have quietly provided a total of more than 42 million dollars to key individuals and organisations that have spearheaded the nation-wide effort between 2001 and 2009. "
 
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1Perry said:
Seems to me that this belongs in the conspiracy section.
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It's from the Center For American Progress... It doesn't belong in the conspiracy section, it belongs in the garbage.
 
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The report is pretty.....unsophisticated with its approach.

And Grim, I'd beg to differ and say that CAP isn't that bad. I treat it like the other major think-tanks.
 
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I see all sorts of similiar accusations on sites like worldnetdaily. I'd be embarassed to promote them.

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Grim17 said:
It's from the Center For American Progress... It doesn't belong in the conspiracy section, it belongs in the garbage.
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Would you, could you please explain?
 
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pbrauer said:
Would you, could you please explain?
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Yes. He does not want to dig into content, so he falls back on his old standby, attacking the source. If WND published an article on Obama not being an NBC, liberals would comment on the source, then blow up the details. The second part is not something Grim will do since it is hard.
 
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Redress said:
Yes. He does not want to dig into content, so he falls back on his old standby, attacking the source. If WND published an article on Obama not being an NBC, liberals would comment on the source, then blow up the details. The second part is not something Grim will do since it is hard.
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No, the source is most generally dismissed out of hand. Some sites have earned that right.
 
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Redress said:
Yes. He does not want to dig into content, so he falls back on his old standby, attacking the source. If WND published an article on Obama not being an NBC, liberals would comment on the source, then blow up the details. The second part is not something Grim will do since it is hard.
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Maybe he will add some substance to his attack, but I seriously doubt he will.
 
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1Perry said:
No, the source is most generally dismissed out of hand. Some sites have earned that right.
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Says who??...
 
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pbrauer said:
Says who??...
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I'll be sure to start noting.
 
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Responding to CAP’s Islamophobia report, anti-Muslim activists David Horowitz called it “fascistic” and Robert Spencer deemed it the “agenda of the Islamic jihad.” Determined to one-up her Islamophobia network colleagues, Pamela Geller took to her blog on Friday evening to unleash a fiery tirade against the new report “Fear, Inc.”

Geller piles baseless, if at times colorful, allegations on the report’s authors. Including:

Over at the wildly funded machine of hate and lies, the “Center of American Progess,” the Soros cranks have spent hundreds of thousands producing a pile of dung masquerading as research. [...]

It reads more like a Mein Kampf treatise. The funding section of the report is outrageous. I have not seen one dime from any those donors, though they name me as a recipient. Lies. [...]

[MediaMatters and the Center for American Progress] mean to destroy this country, and they will crush anyone who gets in their way. [...]

This “report on Islamophobia” is Goebbels attacking the Jew. I wear it as a badge of honor. These quislings are the enemy. They fear my work, and that is good. They fear my book, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. [...]

Watch them choke on their own vomit.
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Anti-Muslim Blogger Pamela Geller Lashes Out At Islamophobia Report: ‘Pile Of Dung Masquerading As Research’ | ThinkProgress
 
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Grim17 said:
It's from the Center For American Progress... It doesn't belong in the conspiracy section, it belongs in the garbage.
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The report, which was funded by the financier George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI),
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This belongs down in the **** hole in the Basement.
 
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First, has anyone heard of any of the groups covered in the report? I know I haven't.

Second, John Podesta? Can we get a more biased source?

I doubt the validity of the report, but even if it is true...so what? A couple of no name, no recognition groups worked together? Well whoopty freakin do. Can we talk about something that actually matters? Like a president whose first instinct is to do the wrong thing and what it is going to take to replace him.
 
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i'm more of the mind that 19 hijackers on a bright September morning had more to do with any "Islamophobia" than any scary right wing think collaboration could ever pull off.
 
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ksu_aviator said:
First, has anyone heard of any of the groups covered in the report? I know I haven't.

Second, John Podesta? Can we get a more biased source?

I doubt the validity of the report, but even if it is true...so what? A couple of no name, no recognition groups worked together? Well whoopty freakin do. Can we talk about something that actually matters? Like a president whose first instinct is to do the wrong thing and what it is going to take to replace him.
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Whether you've heard of the groups or not is entirely inconsequential.

However biased you think the report may be, it seems comical that you and other conservatives are ready to dismiss it as a whole right away.
 
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TheGreatSandeno said:
Whether you've heard of the groups or not is entirely inconsequential.

However biased you think the report may be, it seems comical that you and other conservatives are ready to dismiss it as a whole right away.
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considering the source, it's not unreasonable to dismiss it.... just as it's not unreasonable for a left leaner to dismiss an inflammatory "report" from a hyperpartisan right wing org.
 
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ksu_aviator said:
First, has anyone heard of any of the groups covered in the report? I know I haven't.
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I have. A number of the foundations fund more conservative or moderate Democratic projects, and in my view, contribute greatly to our political conversation. By coincidence, the groups are also not big promoters of those in CAP, but rather, other think-tanks. As for some of the people involved and their subsequent projects, I am not fans of them or their work, but I think the report is guilty of putting too much "there" there. It's a report that, I suppose, fights fire with fire, but what can one really say about that other than it's sophomoric?
 
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Thrilla said:
i'm more of the mind that 19 hijackers on a bright September morning had more to do with any "Islamophobia" than any scary right wing think collaboration could ever pull off.
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Maybe it has something to do with the 17,678 deadly terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims since the attacks on 9/11/2001? In July of this year alone there were 167 jihad attacks, which killed over 700 people and injured more than a 1000...

Naa... That can't be it... It's all a manufactured right wing conspiracy.
 
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Thrilla said:
i'm more of the mind that 19 hijackers on a bright September morning had more to do with any "Islamophobia" than any scary right wing think collaboration could ever pull off.
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Well you're missing the obvious. This right wing conspiracy was behind 9/11 as a way to gin up fear of Muslims. Oh my, have I said too much?
 
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TheGreatSandeno said:
Whether you've heard of the groups or not is entirely inconsequential.

However biased you think the report may be, it seems comical that you and other conservatives are ready to dismiss it as a whole right away.
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Actually, it is quite consequential. If the groups are so small that the average American has no knowledge of them, what influence have they had? Small groups with no exposure have minimal ability drive national debate. If the accusation is that these groups created massive hysteria it fails when no one knows who the groups are.
 
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1Perry said:
I see all sorts of similiar accusations on sites like worldnetdaily. I'd be embarassed to promote them.

Illegal alien from Kenya named Obama arrested in U.S.

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LMAO, I sorry but this strikes my as funny, kinda like what I saw some time ago about a Kenyan village missing a idiot..lol.
 
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